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RELATED WORDS : bob under buckle under circumstances contract under seal down under fall under get under one's skin go under going under hot under the collar in straitened circumstances knuckle under labor under lying under oath pheasant under glass put under snow under sweep under the rug under under arms under attack under consideration under construction under control under fire under it under no circumstances under that under the impression under the influence under the sun under the weather under way under wraps water under the bridge

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Adverbial under the circumstances has 1 sense

• under the circumstances(r = adv.all) Array - because of prevailing conditions; "under the circumstances I cannot buy the house"

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under the circumstances

Circumstance

N circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point, terms, regime, footing, standing, status, occasion, juncture, conjunctive, contingency, predicament, emergence, emergency, exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push, occurrence, turning point, bearings, how the land lies, surroundings, context, environment, location, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), causation, attribution, circumstantial, given, conditional, provisional, critical, modal, contingent, incidental, adventitious, limitative, in the circumstances, under the circumstances, the circumstances, conditions, thus, in such wise, accordingly, that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances, that being so, sith, since, seeing that, as matters stand, as things go, as times go, conditionally, provided, if, in case, if so, if so be, if it be so, depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, if it so happen, if it so turn out, in the event of, in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event, provisionally, unless, without, according to circumstances, according to the occasion, as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be, as the case may be, as the wind blows, pro re nata, yet are my sins not those of circumstance.

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